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HANDLE ATTACHMENT EOE SHEET METAL VESSELS No. 298,304. Patented May 6,1884.

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EMILE KRIPPENDOBFF AND HOWVARD O. MARSH, OF WOOD HAVEN, ASSIGN- ORS TOTHE LALANGE & GROSJEAN MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF

NEW YORK, N. Y.

HANDLE ATTACHMENT FOR SHEET-METAL VESSELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 298,304, dated May 6,1884.

Application filed Septcmbe 5,188 3. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, EMILE KRIPPEN- DORFF and Howiinn OfMARsH, citizensof the United States, residing, respectively, at WVood 5 Haven, in thecounty of Queens and State of New York, have jointly invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Handle Attachments for Sheet-MetalVessels, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to joints by which the handles of sheet-metalvessels are attached to the bodies; and its object is to provide a moredurable, neat, and reliable form of attachment than those heretofore ingeneral use.

I 5 Prior to the date of our present invention handles have almostinvariably been attached either by being soldered directly to thevesselbody, or flanges have been formed upon the extremity of thehandle, next the vessel, the

handles being then attached by means of rivets passing through theflange and vesselbody. Both of these methods have proved objectionable.The first by reason of the great liability of the separation of theparts, owing to the connection being formed by solder only, and thelatter method by reasonof the imperfect appearance and expensiveconstruction of the joint caused by the large amount of rivetingrequired to be done. Moreover,

both of these methods are very defective, be-

cause the handle is attached to the vessel by a single thickness of thematerial which forms the latter hence the liability to break or cutholes through the body at the point of attachment by continued use. Byour invention a much narrower (and consequently more cheaplyconstructed) flange upon the handle may be used, fewer rivets employedthan in the joint last-above referred to, while by the 40 use of thecollar hereinafter described the thickness of the side of the vessel atthe point of attachment is doubled, thus giving double the strength atthe point where it is especially needed, and at the same time a muchneater 5 finish isgiven to the joint.

The accompanying drawings illustrate our improvements, Figure 1 being avertical section, and Fig. 2 a view in elevation, of our improved jointas applied to a tubular handle.

Fig. 3 illustrates the same applied to a flat 5o handle, and Fig. 4illustrates a joint of slightlymodified form. Fig. 5is a front view ofone form of part B.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, A represents the body of any sheet-metalvessel to which it is desirable to attach a handle.

A collar, B, having a flange, I), forming itsouter edge, is secured,preferably by means of the rivets 1' 1' r 1", to the body A, as shown.The shape and position of the flange before the attachment of the handleare indicated. To save weight the collar may preferably be stamped witha hole in its center, as shown, thus making it lighter without the lossof the required strength.

The handle 0, which may be of any desirable shape, and have eitheraflat,oval, or circular cross-section, is provided upon its extremity next thevessel with a flange, c. The flanged extremity of the handle is placedwithin the flanged collar B, as shown in Fig. 1, after which the flangeb is bent down over the flange c by means of dies or otherwise.

In the case of certain articlessuch as dippers, ladles, &c.-it isdesirable that the handle be attached close to the upper edge or rim ofthe bowl or body of the vessel, and that the handle shall inclineconsiderably up ward from the body. For such cases our invention isequally applicable by a slight modification of the joint, as shown inFigs. 4 and 5. A portion of the top of the collar B is cut off, leavingit in the form of the letter U, its upper extremities meeting with theedge of the vessel on opposite sides of the handle. The lip D, on theupper side of the end of the handle, is then turned over the edge of thevessel, and soldered or riveted to the interior in a wellknown manner.

The material used for the collar shown herein may be had from theordinary scraps made in the cutting out of larger articles, andtherefore the cost is practically nothing, while a strong, neat, andinexpensive joint is pro-- duced.

WVe claim as our invention The combination of the sheet-metal vessel,the handle 0, having the flange a, and the intervening connectingcollar, 13, having the scribed our naines this 4th day of September,

flange b on its outer edge, overlapping the A. D. 1883.

flange c on the handle, the collar affording a EMILE KRIPPENDORFF.bearing for the handle, whereby it is sup- I HOWARD O. MARSH.

5 ported by a double thickness of metal, substan- Witnesses:

tially as described. CHAS. DOUGHTY,

In testimony whereof wehave hereunto sub- J AMES COOHRAN.

